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Although her poems are little know today, Lady Mary Wroth was one of the most accomplished women writers of the English Renaissance. Her poems were circulated among many of the leading authors of her...

The most authoritative resource on religious trends in America—now fully updatedMost Americans say they believe in God, and more than a third say they attend religious services every week. Yet...

Surprising readings of Chaucer and a fresh estimate of his contribution to early humanismMichaela Paasche Grudin believes that for Chaucer speech is the heart of culture and that his major work...

Are oil-rich countries prone to war? And, if so, why? There is a widely held belief that contemporary wars are motivated by the desire of great powers like the United States or Russia to control...

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL An intimate photographic glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese society The LGBTQ community in Japan has faced its challenges. Even as some...

This book examines social policy on poverty and unemployment in Edwardian England as exemplified in the conflict of ideas between two husband-and-wife teams of social theorists: the Fabian...

Spinoza rejects fundamental tenets of received morality, including the notions of Providence and free will. Yet he retrains rich theories of good and evil, virtue, perfection, and freedom. Building...

A convincing argument that mass incarceration neither reduces crime nor ensures safetyOver two million people are incarcerated in America’s prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975...

Populist Movement - Novelists of the soil and patrician poets - Chekhov - Modernist Movement - Gorky - 1905 and its aftermath - Blok and the Symbolists.

The Twentieth Century is one of a series which attempts to describe the social, political, religious and intellectual climate in which the visual arts developed in a particular period as well as the...

This thorough and reliable survey of American painting and sculpture from colonial times to the present day covers all the major artists and their works, outlines the social and cultural background...

Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live...

Readers will learn about the relationships between people and the gardens of Earth, seed preservation, Native diets and meals, natural pest control, and the importance of the Circle of Life.

Una clase magistral sobre la actualidad y el oficio de novelista por el Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa.Universidad de Princeton, Nueva Jersey, 2015. Durante un semestre, Mario Vargas...

A New York Times Bestseller and tie-in to Academy-Award Winning Short Film "Hair Love" "I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter. Matthew leads the...

The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald,...